Compare Titian's Assumption and Banksy's mural in regard to historical and social context, visual presentation, and audience.
What will be an ideal response?
Titian's Assumption is a religious painting not housed in a museum, but in a church, and created during a period when Christianity was a central aspect of society. Viewers experience the splendor of the setting when viewing it as a part of an altarpiece. The church becomes the museum. Banksy's mural is ephemeral, it assumes it will be painted over. The mural is for a more casual audience: people walking outside on the street. The work comments on our attitudes toward street art, drawing a parallel between modern street art and the cave paintings of prehistory that we now consider to be priceless treasures.
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